Pick one of the categories to report on. Write your name(s) after the topic. No more than 2 people for each topic. You can use the PPTs above for your presentations or use them as references if you want to create your own presentation material. 6 minutes maximum time limit for each topic unless I wrote "Extra Time" after the presentation topic, in which case you can have a maximum of 12 minutes. Practice and time yourselves. Be efficient. If you don't need all 6 minutes, don't waste time by just babbling for a few minutes to kill time.
Semantics and Change of Meaning (Don't do this one--I'll introduce the topic.)
Generalization and Specialization (Sonia/ Angella)
Language Change
PPTs
Read the following chapters
Here are pdf files of the PowerPoint presentations that I made:
We will work on these Exercises in class if we have extra time, and also for homework:
Pick one of the categories to report on. Write your name(s) after the topic. No more than 2 people for each topic. You can use the PPTs above for your presentations or use them as references if you want to create your own presentation material. 6 minutes maximum time limit for each topic unless I wrote "Extra Time" after the presentation topic, in which case you can have a maximum of 12 minutes. Practice and time yourselves. Be efficient. If you don't need all 6 minutes, don't waste time by just babbling for a few minutes to kill time.
Semantics and Change of Meaning (Don't do this one--I'll introduce the topic.)
Generalization and Specialization (Sonia/ Angella)
Pejoration and Amelioration (Kimi/Vivian Lin )
pejoration.pptx
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Taboo and Euphemism ( Vivian/Lillian)
Some Circumstances of Semantic Change (Eva/Jenny)
SOME-CIRCUMSTANCES-OF-SEMANTIC-CHANGE.pptx
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Creating Words: Root Creations/Echoic Words/Ejaculations (Oswald /Jessica )
Compounding (Arthur/William ) Extra Time
Affixing (Ria/Grace)
Shortening Words: Clipped/ Initialisms (Elsa/Erica)
Clipping.pptx
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Back-formations (Carmen)
Back-formations20150508.pptx
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Blending ( Serena/ Yunyun)
blending.pptx
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Shifting Words from one part of speech to another (Belle )
HoEL Presentation Changing PoS.pptx
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Common Words from Proper Names (Sandy/Allen)
Common Words from Proper Names.pptx
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